Oracle says the new In-Memory Option it unveiled today will allow its 12c database customers to run analytic workloads 100 times faster than they previously could. The secret sauce is a new ...

Oracle Database In-Memory automatically maintains data in both the existing Oracle row format for OLTP operations, and a new, purely in-memory column format optimized for analytical processing.

The latest release of Oracle Database (12.1.0.2) offers a unique set of features that portend increases in application workload execution, especially for analytics and data warehousing queries. This ...

Oracle’s announcement is an “in-memory option” to Oracle Database 12c, which Ovum expects will hit general release around mid-2014. Having already added a columnar data store alongside the row store, ...

So Oracle Database 12 c —introduced last year and now Oracle’s flagship relational database—now has an optional in-memory column store. 2. It’s actually more than in-memory.

Ellison declared that this in-memory option means databases can process billions of rows and columns at "ungodly speeds." ...

Companies that run SAP’s applications should know that most of those applications can perform much better on Oracle Database than on any other database platform, including HANA.

Oracle's summer of product launches continues as Database 12c becomes generally available. Will all applications go in-memory?

Oracle CEO Larry Ellison has thrown his gauntlet down in the burgeoning market for in-memory computing, announcing a new option for Oracle's flagship database at the OpenWorld conference in San ...

For analysis, Oracle Database 21c can automatically configure which columns to place in memory, can perform SIMD vectorized hash joins, and can complete hybrid scans against in-memory columns and ...

The 12C In-Memory Option is aimed at enabling ISV applications to accelerate performance by orders of magnitude for several use cases.

While Oracle released an initial version of Database 12c in June, on the call Ellison referred to an upcoming product he described as a “vertical, columnar compressed, high-speed in-memory ...